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  <section id="cmake-cuda-runtime-library">
<span id="variable:CMAKE_CUDA_RUNTIME_LIBRARY"></span><h1>CMAKE_CUDA_RUNTIME_LIBRARY<a class="headerlink" href="#cmake-cuda-runtime-library" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h1>
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<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.17.</span></p>
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<p>Select the CUDA runtime library for use when compiling and linking CUDA.
This variable is used to initialize the <span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:CUDA_RUNTIME_LIBRARY"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../prop_tgt/CUDA_RUNTIME_LIBRARY.html#prop_tgt:CUDA_RUNTIME_LIBRARY" title="CUDA_RUNTIME_LIBRARY"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CUDA_RUNTIME_LIBRARY</span></code></a>
property on all targets as they are created.</p>
<p>The allowed case insensitive values are:</p>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></dt><dd><p>Link with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-cudart=none</span></code> or equivalent flag(s) to use no CUDA
runtime library.</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Shared</span></code></dt><dd><p>Link with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-cudart=shared</span></code> or equivalent flag(s) to use a
dynamically-linked CUDA runtime library.</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Static</span></code></dt><dd><p>Link with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-cudart=static</span></code> or equivalent flag(s) to use a
statically-linked CUDA runtime library.</p>
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<p>Contents of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CMAKE_CUDA_RUNTIME_LIBRARY</span></code> may use
<span class="target" id="index-0-manual:cmake-generator-expressions(7)"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.html#manual:cmake-generator-expressions(7)" title="cmake-generator-expressions(7)"><code class="xref cmake cmake-manual docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">generator</span> <span class="pre">expressions</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>If this variable is not set then the <span class="target" id="index-1-prop_tgt:CUDA_RUNTIME_LIBRARY"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../prop_tgt/CUDA_RUNTIME_LIBRARY.html#prop_tgt:CUDA_RUNTIME_LIBRARY" title="CUDA_RUNTIME_LIBRARY"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CUDA_RUNTIME_LIBRARY</span></code></a> target
property will not be set automatically.  If that property is not set then
CMake uses an appropriate default value based on the compiler to select the
CUDA runtime library.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>This property has effect only when the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CUDA</span></code> language is enabled. To
control the CUDA runtime linking when only using the CUDA SDK with the
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">C</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">C++</span></code> language we recommend using the <span class="target" id="index-0-module:FindCUDAToolkit"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../module/FindCUDAToolkit.html#module:FindCUDAToolkit" title="FindCUDAToolkit"><code class="xref cmake cmake-module docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">FindCUDAToolkit</span></code></a>
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